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ISBN 0-609-60465-1
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The Antidepressant Survival Program
Robert J. Hedaya, M.D.

More than 25 million Americans at currently taking antidepressants for a wide, range of psychiatric and physical disorders. But these "wonder drugs" have serious side effects - including weight gain, loss of energy, and sexual dysfunction - that afflict up to 80 percent of those who take them. No other book addresses this increasingly prevalent problem. Dr. Robert Hedaya urges side-effect sufferers, to "get a life--a whole life!" by getting on the program that has worked wonders for hundreds of his own patients.

Drawing on his expertise in psychiatry, nutrition, and endocrinology, Dr. Hedaya has created a comprehensive program of diet, exercise, stress reduction, and hormone supplementation that actually enhances the benefits of the medication while reducing or completely eliminating its side effects.

This book offers a desperately needed plan for all who in caught between a rock of depression and a hard place of antidepressants.

ROBERT J. HEDAYA, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Hospital's Department of Psychiatry. He also maintains a private practice and, through his writing, teaching, and lecturing, has earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading psychopharmacologists. He practices in Chevy Chase, Maryland.